Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) was an Austrian neurologist, now known as the father of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is a system of psychological theory and therapy which aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind by techniques such as dream interpretation and free association. In creating psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process.
Freud’s redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory. His analysis of dreams as wish-fulfillments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the mechanisms of repression as well as for elaboration of his theory of the unconscious as an agency disruptive of conscious states of mind.
As he possessed one of the greatest minds of the field of psychology, it’s worth knowing what he taught:
Here Are 25 Sigmund Freud Quotes That Will Make You Rethink Life:
1) “We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love”
2) “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength”
3) “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
4) “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
5) “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
6) “Sexual love is undoubtedly one of the chief things in life, and the union of mental and bodily satisfaction in the enjoyment of love is one of its culminating peaks. Apart from a few queer fanatics, all the world knows this and conducts its life accordingly; science alone is too delicate to admit it.”
7) “From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.”
8) “Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.”
9) “A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.”
10) “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
11) “Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
12) “Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.”
13) “He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.”
14) “The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”
15) “A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”
16) “Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?”
17) “He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.”
18) “The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.”
19) “The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.”
20) “Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.”
21) “Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”
22) “Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.”
23) “The ego is not master in its own house.”
24) “Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.”
25) “No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.”
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